We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

Willing to die you give up your will; keep still, until moved by what moves all else, you move.

To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.

I'd rather rely on mother nature's wisdom than man's cleverness

From a human point of view, the difference between the mind of a human and that of a mountain goat is wonderful; from the point of view of the infinite ignorance that surrounds us, the difference is not impressive. Indeed, from that point of view, the goat may have the better mind, for he is more congenially adapted to his place, and he would not endanger his species or his planet for the sake of an idea.

If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.